I have a pretty big Brush Collection already so I am a little bit hard to please when it comes to make up brushes. Trish McEvoy Brushes – OOH! Shu Uemura Brushes – AAH!

My initial reaction is that the Max Factor make up brushes are good. Certainly for the price, you get a set of useful, well made brushes that are soft, and didn’t moult on me at all. I remember buying my first ever brushes (from The Body Shop, Boots and even Tesco!) and they moulted like you wouldn’t believe.

Here are 3 of the brushes –

I do like a wide fluffy eye brush – there’s nothing like this in the range, nor is there a blending brush, but I reckon this is just the beginning of the range…The lip brush comes with a cap so you can carry it in your handbag. I am also a fan of the angle brush, I have been wetting it and using it with eyeshadow for a soft, blurry line rather than a hard edged one.

The bristles are good quality and soft – no moulting at all for me. They’re not as soft as some of my other brushes but they cos 4x times more:

I also got the large powder brush – at first I didn’t think this felt as soft as I’d like. It is also a very, very full fluffy brush and I usually use something smaller so I don’t end up with a cloud of powder everywhere:

However, I’ve decided I do like this because I don’t think I have another powder brush which is quite so full. The benefit of this is that I end up with a very very airy light coverage over my face – good because I hate the crusty look.

Can’t use this for blusher (I do multi use products sometimes!) because it’s so wide but that’s ok:

Verdict:

Max Factor seems to have stuck to basics with their first brush and accessories range, choosing brushes that people who are building a starter kit will find really useful and keeping the packaging simple.

The brushes are good quality, no moulting, but not as soft as the high end brushes – but still does the job.

I think anyone who wants some cheaper brushes to use day to day, or who is building their kit, or a student, someone getting their first brush kit will appreciate this range.